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at the ends of all the others ; sides of the head rufous with the cheeks and 

 an indistinct broad eyebrow paler ; under surface of the body pale cinnamon 

 somewhat mottled with buff and fading into white on the throat ; a few 

 blackish shaft-stripes on the lower throat and crop ; under surface of the 

 wings brown ; with the under wing-coverts pale cinnamon and partial buff 

 inner margins to the quills. " Iris light ashy brown; bill dusky, with the 

 lower mandible paler and more ashy ; tarsi and feet pale ashy brown " 

 (T. Ayres). Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-5, tail 2-0; tarsus 

 1-0. Hope Town (Atmore). 



Immakire. Slightly darker than the adult ; crown and mantle spotted 

 with white, the ends of the feathers being broadly edged with white with 

 a partial black subterminal bar ; chest and flank with blackish brown spots, 

 d , juv. 7. 5. 78. Potchefstroom (T. Ayres). 



The Rufous Long-billed Lark inhabits South Africa, south 

 of about 20° S. lat. 



Mr. Fleck found the species in the Kalahari. Chapman 

 and Andersson do not appear to have met with it further 

 north than Great Namaqualand, for although Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe in 1874 refers to two specimens then in his collec- 

 tion, as labelled "Damaraland (Andersson)," Andersson writes: 

 " I have not observed this species in Damaraland, but it is 

 common in some parts of Great Namaqualand, frequenting 

 very open localities covered with grass and bush, where it 

 runs about with great swiftness." In the northern portion of 

 Cape Colony the late Sir Andrew Smith obtained the type 

 of his Gerthilauda garrida, a rather dark specimen, which is 

 now in the British Museum along with others from Great 

 Namaqua, Hope Town, Colesberg and Port Elizabeth. 



To the eastward of Cape Colony, Messrs. Butler, Peilden 

 and Reid record the species as being : " Extremely abundant 

 about Newcastle, found in small flocks on the open veldt, 

 generally where there are ant-hills or loose rocks among the 

 grass. Flies low and rapidly, displaying its white-tipped tail 

 very conspicuously, and dropping with astonishing suddenness 

 into the grass. Nest very small indeed, placed under a slight 



